Well... I successfully defended my PhD today. Which means I can finally say: Hello, I'm Dr Erin Johanson. 🎓🥹 (Please allow me to be absolutely insufferable about this for at least the next six months.) #PhD #History #MentalHealthHistory
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| History #PhD submitted! | #Librarian | Plumpton College | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | Shāhmārān | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
Council for the Defence of British Universities@cdbu.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew on the CDBU blog: 5 low cost things employers could do to help precarious staff 💰 Words by @hagenilda.bsky.social ✍️
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
It's my birthday today. If you can donate to this for @bookaidint.bsky.social i would be eternally grateful. If you can't donate, please share 🙏🏼♥️
| Éireann |@rinnywee.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt's my birthday soon, and I am raising money for @bookaidint.bsky.social They send books to libraries, schools, etc around the world, helping people access stories, education, & possibility. If you’d like to help: www.justgiving.com/page/erinsbi... #BirthdayFundraiser #BooksChangeLives
Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...
Doctoral Training Programme: What's Not There? Absences in Collections | Museums and Collections
Explore techniques to research 'against the grain' and uncover marginalised stories.
collections.reading.ac.uk
#OTD 7 January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. #WomensHistory #GenderHist
It's my birthday soon, and I am raising money for @bookaidint.bsky.social They send books to libraries, schools, etc around the world, helping people access stories, education, & possibility. If you’d like to help: www.justgiving.com/page/erinsbi... #BirthdayFundraiser #BooksChangeLives
Erin’s Birthday Books for Book Aid International
Help Erin J raise money to support Book Aid International
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Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871. Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15. Small comforts, even in confinement. #AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian
Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871. Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15. Small comforts, even in confinement. #AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian
I will be featured on the Sunday Programme on Radio 4 on Sunday 21 December, talking about the Winter Solstice. It will be live from around 7.10 am Sunday but also listenable on the Radio 4 website. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - Sunday
A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week
bbc.co.uk
It's been over 5 years since Boris Johnson blocked me on Twitter for continually replying "dickhead" to each of his posts, so I should be okay. 🤞😇👍🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
bbc.co.uk
Who knew you'd find special door openers for pixies and tomtens on the NTTransit trains? Take note of the little sign at their eye level 😍 Happy travels tomtens and pixies! #Folklore @deedeechainey.bsky.social @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social @njtransit--nec.bsky.social
Some of the vaulted ceilings at Peterborough Cathedral still retain their medieval painted decoration…fictive masonry, or ashlaring, with a classic flower motif 😍
Waiting on feedback on final chapter by sup but... I think I have my first final draft done. OF THE WHOLE THESIS. I have intro, chapters, conclusion and all the rest of the shit done. Let the editing begin! Holy shit you guys. #phd #phdlife #historian #medicalhistory #skystorians
Isabelle Eberhardt 💕 (+October 21,1897 in Algeria explorer,writer,Russian origin, traveled dressed as a man. The first European to experience Sufism in the Maghreb and to bear witness to it in her writings, "And yet, wandering is liberation, and life along the roads is freedom." Written in the sand
Forthcoming in May 2026 @threeroomspress.bsky.social : "The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt" by Hédi A. Jaouad. This new biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) will surely be of interest to many scholars in the field threeroomspress.com/the-immortal... #IsabelleEberhadt #biography
The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt
In Hédi A. Jaouad's new biography, the legendary adventuress emerges as a radically modern figure—crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.
threeroomspress.com
📜 From Old Books, 19th Century “The sigh of separation has reached me; it has burned this soul and heart. I do not know, O Lord, does that young beloved know of it?”
this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching. I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
No surprise that the delightful duo of @romanpalace.bsky.social and @durotrigesdig.bsky.social are foremost in my engagement... #troublemakers
The library tree is up! This year’s theme is Read Around the World - ornaments made from book covers from every country. See them all: guides.lib.sussex.ac.uk/c.php?g=7229... @sussexlibrary.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through. Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 9mo agoBalancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨ Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿 Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com ☺️
Strike fatigue is real. Especially when we continue to see that strike action doesn't give any real results.
Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 9mo agoUnfortunately the HE 2025 ballot failed at 39% turnout. I have written about why and about what desperately needs to change in UCU's national structures off the back of this result. Some HEC members need to chi up and understand their role in all this, and how disconnected they are from members.